Wine
Photographs
Historical
photos from the Douro
A series of
pictures from Portugal's spectacular Douro region taken from the
archive at Quinta dos Malvedos, which belongs to Port house
Graham's. These pictures date to the first decade of the 20th
century. Pictures are posted at low resolution; click on thumbnails
for larger versions. (High resolution versions of these
pictures available.)

Before the Douro was dammed in the 1970s it was very
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The river level is now much higher |

The hard work of harvesting grapes by hand |
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Once the wines were made they were shipped to Porto by
boat, in barrel. This was quite a journey, including some
rapids. It would have been quite hazardous. |

These same lagares, at Malvedos, are still in use today
for foot-treading grapes for Port |
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Ox were used to move the pipes of Port. A brilliant
picture. |
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See
also:
Photos
from Quinta do Noval's famous Nacional
Vineyard
More
wine photographs
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